Episode 13 - Scott & Matt Pick 1 Favorite Streisand song from 2002-2007 Albums

[@TruthHoles]

I'm glad Matt defended "Guilty Pleasures," which I love. It's not the work of art that "The Movie Album" is, but its melodies are pretty and Barbra sounds so relaxed! It's nice to hear.

[@davidj8607]

You guys didn’t pick « Hideaway » from Guilty Pleasures - you’re canceled 😂😂😂😂 GORGEOUS sensual song !

[@barbraarchives5604]

I love it too !!

[@davidj8607]

@@barbraarchives5604 ❤️❤️

[@SomeGuy-mg5jy]

I like GOLDEN DAWN. Speaking of sensual. 🎉

[@greeklawyer2002]

"Night of my life" stayed for many weeks at No2 of the Dance Songs of Billboard with Madonna at No1 w/ "Hung Up". Great accomplishment at her 60's!

[@lucyfer4420]

yes! that was awesome! It reminds me that I once read, somewhere, that a "remix version" (dance version exactly) was considered for No Matter What Happens from Yentl. That would've been absolutely awesome!

[@jameshall9402]

Another FUN video! I like the way Matt described The Movie Album as being elegant. "Wild Is The Wind" is one her very best recordings in my opinion, though I truly adore "More In Love With You". There are so many "shades" of Barbra on that album. The 2000's will be the decades people and critics will look back on as the hidden gems of her musicality.

[@PhilAlumb]

These were the albums where She did her overly romantic whispery singing and Undersold Her artistic style deliveries (to hear Barbra sing "You're Gonna Hear Me" IN HER PRIME). But there were some good points, especially "Night Of My Life" and some selections from her Live Concert album.

[@JoaoRodrigues-wm3el]

I love your videos, I am 18 and have been in love with Streisands voice since I was 12, it’s a hard thing to love Streisand when you are a teenager in the 21 century unfortunately, but you guys truly became friends in “Barbra world “ so thank you very much Do you think she will do another album? Since walls was her last in 2018 I am afraid she won’t… Btw: my guilty pleasure is kind enjoying guilty pleasures the album 😂😂

[@mcpmanuel]

"Unusual way" and "What are you doing the rest of your life" are my fave songs from that concert album.

[@dl3756]

Agree with your desire, Scott, to hear Barbra sing It Might Be You. Until that happens my favorite version will always be the one by Roberta Flack. Heavenly! Check it out if you don’t already know it.

[@edwilliams9573]

Shirley Horn does most of those songs on LITA before Barbra. FANTASTIC recordings (I almost like it better than BS. Ducking) I hope you guys continue with this show after the book comes out. You're too good not to continue.

[@wengfong6742]

Matt, your Barbra archives in its many forms is such an amazing resource for fans everywhere. Looking forward to get your book!

[@barbraarchives5604]

Thank you so much !

[@daviddebaerdemaeker2034]

Live 2006 !!!! Unusual Way, Have I stayed Too Long at The Fair, Sarting Here, Starting Now, Down With Love, Smile after The Concert it is my favorite concert tour!!!!

[@albertoolarte206]

I’ve seen her live in concert twice and she’s really amazing. She’s an inspiration, specially how she handled her career and managed to reach on top, not only in singing, song writing, acting, directing, etc. She’s a consummate performer and international treasure . ❤️❤️❤️ thanks for reacting and sharing your knowledge about her, very interesting and educational. ❤❤❤

[@alanmaingard7126]

Hey guys - I wish these could go on forever but alas! Love love love Guilty Pleasures and like any album there are tracks that are better than others, still amongst my favourite albums. Movie Album not so much - I always love when artists do work that suits them etc but this one leaves me a bit cold despite many many listens. Just cannot get into it. ❤

[@Babsfan]

Guys, I could not agree with you both more on Love Is The Answer. Just a masterpiece. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@mrchrisliddell]

I was there with you in DC! My first time seeing her live 😊 also, Movie Album is a top favorite! Love Guilty Pleasures & Love is the Answer as well 😋

[@Mirror1973]

I love you guys! Thank you for all these videos! Matt, I think it would be helpful, for those of us that have followed your Barbra Archives website since it’s beginning, tha you explain how the book differs from the information you have on the discography section of your lovely website ❤️

[@barbraarchives5604]

Good suggestion! We’ll do that on an upcoming episode.

[@vinylbeauty]

I want a vinyl copy of Love is the Answer so badly but as you say it’s so pricey & hard to find. It’s such a classy & relaxing album to listen to. I love it so much

[@SonicDeeHedgehog]

I LOVE Guilty Pleasures. From start to finish.

[@romuloemilioguevara5403]

Me too. We need to tie Scott in a chair and force him to listen to Guilty Pleasures track by track and have a detailed appreciation discussion after every track. 🤓😈I mean he didn’t even have a copy of the CD he hates it so much. The audacity! 😂

[@barbraarchives5604]

Hahaha! Scott is determined not to like that album. I am still a huge fan of it.

[@mrchrisliddell]

Same!!

[@samph3315]

The great thing about this series is that I’m going back to listen to these albums. I agree with the guys that sometimes the albums are disappointing because She is doing what She wants to do and not what we want Her to do.

[@barbraarchives5604]

And that's the main point I make in my book -- she's recorded SO MUCH, I think fans forget to listen to some of these tracks and albums. So I am pointing you all toward some songs/albums I feel are worthy of a revisit!!

[@TruthHoles]

I have NEVER understood the fan resistance to "The Movie Album." I think it's one of Streisand's great albums. Barbra's choice of material is idiosyncratic, as Matt points out, but isn't that what we expect from her? I love the songs, and the performances are absolutely unforgettable.

[@billbill5326]

Scott I love the album Till I Loved You. 😊

[@daviddebaerdemaeker2034]

Whaaat ? Guilty Pleasures/Guilty Too is great !! 😊😊😊❤❤❤

[@ukuleleeddie1953]

Great episode. I like Guilty Pleasures, but wish she would have just done the Gibb songbook. Most of the new Gibb songs were not great songs. If she had instead mined the Gibb catalog for the gems, it would have been much better. I adore her version of Don’t throw it all away. I also wish she had done a series of songbook albums of the music of her generation. Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, so many great composers. Lots of missed opportunities. As for the Movie Album, it just wasn’t what people expected or wanted. It was a huge missed opportunity and should have been an easy number 1 and huge seller, but the material sank it. This could have been a series as well. I’m not a huge fan of Love is the Answer, but agree it should have won a Grammy and love it went to Number 1. I totally agree Barbra needs to work with more women and do a female centered album. I’m surprised she hasn’t done this since she’s a champion of women. Why not give more women opportunities to produce or write?

[@romuloemilioguevara5403]

Wrong guys! There are alternative takes or spliced mixes of her vocals in Love is The Answer… not just on Smoke. In the Wee Hours she says “about the man” on the quartet version and “about the guy” in the strings version. And Guilty Pleasures is so underrated. Sure there are some questionable choices particularly with Barry’s “da da dadas” which I didn’t care for. But Hidaway is to me an instant classic. Letting Go, Above the Law are outstanding. All the Children with her climactic high note is spectacular considering her age at the time.

[@barbraarchives5604]

Ohhh! I didn't catch those differences on LOVE IS THE ANSWER! I'll listen again!! Thank you.

[@SomeGuy-mg5jy]

I don't like duets (some exceptions) but i own every cd variant of that collection because i love the artwork-- front and back covers and booklet. It was so different for a Barbra album. As for The Movie Album-- it is hit and miss for me. But i really hate when fans expect the most obvious and familiar songs to be covered. I think that shows a lack of imagination. I want to hear songs that are unfamiliar to me. Guilty Pleasures is hit and miss too. Scott loves uptempo Barbra but DIDN'T choose Night of my Life !!! That song is BUMPIN' and her vocal is out of this world. I saw her 2006 tour, so that collection is special to me. I also prefer the Quartet versions of Love is the Answer.

[@principeturandot4593]

@ 19:40 = "Not Guilty" 😂-- Why didn't I think of that?! That's hilarious and clever. That would have been a FAR BETTER title for the second Barry Gibb album from 2005. Team Barbra could've used your creative input back then, Scott.👏Thanks for another great episode!

[@thebluerosemagazine3774]

Scott here. Thanks so much. I have always thought I would be great on Team Barbra. Where do I apply?

[@anthonylucca6759]

What about 'Innocent'?

[@principeturandot4593]

@@thebluerosemagazine3774 Hi Scott! 👋 If I Could… I’d help you out. 😅 Maybe with the release of her autobiography she’ll do an exclusive book signing and you can persuade her in person! 📖✍️🙏😉

[@principeturandot4593]

@@anthonylucca6759 Hey, that’s really not too bad either! So many good ideas. 😎👏👍

[@romuloemilioguevara5403]

Well no. It would have given fodder to the haters to say that it was so not like the great Guilty album. I think it should have been called Guilty 2, not Guilty Too like in the UK. The US title is ok. But hey maybe she will do Guilty 3. She’s already done a trilogy of the Broadway album!

[@billbill5326]

Matt, I have been watching all these episodes and I am struck by what a lovely human being you seem to be. Possibly you are the evil stepsister once the camera is turned off? Lol I am teasing of course. Anyway I just wanted to tell you that you have such a tender and kind way about yourself. ❤️

[@barbraarchives5604]

That’s very kind, Bill. Thank you !

[@nickmartinez7674]

The movie album was, quoting Miranda Priestley, "Dull." When Guilty Pleasures came out, I didn't even bother. The Movie album didn't include Rose's Turn. I was disappointed. Can you imagine if she had sung "If He Walked Into My Life."

[@romuloemilioguevara5403]

Agree. Was so disappointed in Movie Album . When Guilty Pleasures came out I was so happy bc it was back to more pop style. Up to the Movie Album it was a series of boring elevator music albums

[@joshdrayton1230]

I get why some people are disappointed by The Movie Album. And it's because they were hoping for Greatest Hits from the Movies. But Barbra was never going to sing Diamonds Are Forever and The Morning After. She would just never, ever do that kind of album. If you can get past that and listen to The Movie Album anew, parking all preconceptions, you'll see that actually Barbra has done something kind of remarkable. She's made an album that is itself something like an epic movie soundtrack, with all those great songs tied together by an over-arching sensibility and those lush, cinematic orchestrations. I think it's Barbra's second most misunderstood album (after What About Today?), but it's not bad just because you don't like it, or don't get it.

[@barbraarchives5604]

Understood. Those are BROADWAY songs you mentioned, though. LOL. Not movie songs.

[@jons.105]

I'm still waiting for ButterFly apologies. I want that cover photo on a T-shirt. I've met non-Barbra fans who were blown away by it.

[@romuloemilioguevara5403]

Butterfly is one of my favorite albums. My mom bought it for me when I was a teen like with Memories, and Greatest hits vol one and two. And butterfly gave such a warm feeling and happiness. That set of albums were my discovery of Barbra and I was a fan immediately. Interesting how different albums affect different people way different than commercial numbers of reviews

[@jons.105]

@@romuloemilioguevara5403 There's a certain amount of bitterness in the adoration of some long-time Streisand fans--"This was her WORST album ever!"--with no regard to the era it was recorded in, the audience it was meant for, etc. If one of her albums like ButterFly had no hit singles and a funky cover photo, it's automatically doomed by the "Yentl" worshippers. I love her pop/rock phase, I think she took incredible risks for a mainstream artist, and I loved ButterFly, what can I say?

[@romuloemilioguevara5403]

@@jons.105 I agree Jon. I so appreciate Barbra’s versatility and risk taking in particular during the 70s.

[@jons.105]

@@romuloemilioguevara5403 That being said, ButterFly was apparently NOT Streisand's favorite. The exact opposite, in fact. LOL. But, I chalk that up to memories of Jon Peters. Maybe we'll get more info in her upcoming memoirs!

[@romuloemilioguevara5403]

@@jons.105 yeah that was their first collaboration. She looked so in love in those album fotos 😊 can’t wait for the memoir!

[@joshdrayton1230]

I have to strenuously disagree with Scott on Guilty Pleasures. Even though I'm not a massive Barry Gibb/BeeGees fan (mainly because their lyrics are consistently hokey), I really like the work they did with Barbra here. In fact, I like some of it better than Guilty. Also, Barbra is in great voice and in a playful, sexy mood on some tracks. Hideaway and Night of My Life are among the most infectious pop-style songs she's recorded. Above the Law, All The Children, Golden Dawn and Don't Throw It All Away are also great. The only track I don't care for is Stranger in a Strange Land, which they foolishly released as a single. The album is also superbly produced - beautifully lush and layered. Listen again if you think you don't like it!!

[@thebluerosemagazine3774]

Scott Here. I will listen again just for you. Although, I have listened to it recently. I agree with you about Barbra's voice. It wasn't her voice I quibble with. It is just the concepts of the songs. I don't feel the lyrics are up to her standards. But again, I love all her albums. This is just one I am not as found of. Thanks for watching.

[@joshdrayton1230]

@@thebluerosemagazine3774 The lyrics are no worse than those on Guilty. In fact, maybe they're better. (Some of the lyrics on guilty are truly atrocious, eg Woman In Love - "no truth is ever a lie". No kidding?! Few of the songs on Guilty actually make sense if you stop and actually listen to them). But it's a pop album, and one of only a few Barbra albums that is unashamedly finely crafted, expertly produced pop. Most of her albums that lean toward pop (Emotion, Wet, Walls, Til I Loved You) are still largely ballads and very MOR. To me, it's a shame she hasn't done more albums like Guilty Pleasures. We've had far too many mediocre mish-mash albums like Higher Ground and A Love Like Ours - where more thought went into the covers than some of the song choices.

[@josephognibene8198]

I love Guilty Pleasures -- Scott -- those are BS's guilty pleasure songs so get on the bandwagon. :)

[@billbill5326]

Scott, I hope that you have relistened to Guilty Pleasures and reconsidered your opinion of this album. While I agree that it isn’t one of Barbra’s best albums, it is very good. 😊

[@greeklawyer2002]

May I also have the bonus tracks of The Target edition as MP3? Not released in Europe.

[@lucyfer4420]

LOVE IS THE ANSWER was released in 2009.

[@barbraarchives5604]

…. And we’re unscripted.

[@phillycinephile8282]

Barbra has always been an outlier among my musical interests. As a child, I listened to the rock and pop of the '60s and '70s (introduced to me by my older siblings) and as a teenager and beyond, I was immersed in punk/new wave/alternative music. I pretty much loathed show tunes, but Barbra resonated with me anyway, most likely because she was such a huge talent and a force of nature. Barbra wasn't just a performer; she was an entire genre unto herself. That said, I went through a long period, starting with BACK TO BROADWAY, during which I lost interest in her musical output. I stopped buying her albums and was somewhat dismissive of her work. My interest was revived when she played Philadelphia on her "Back to Brooklyn" tour, but I still felt ambivalent about her more recent albums. Thanks to these videos and Matt's excellent book, I've been revisiting all of Barbra's albums and filling in the gaps in my collection, and I have to say that GUILTY PLEASURES has become my new favorite Barbra album. I don't think that GUILTY PLEASURES could have had the same impact as GUILTY because much of GUILTY's appeal came from the startling success of what was, at the time, an unlikely collaboration. It wasn't just that GUILTY was a great album. People were genuinely surprised and delighted by how well Barbra and the Brothers Gibb worked together. With GUILTY PLEASURES, there isn't that element of surprise, and GUILTY is arguably the hardest act of Barbra's career to follow, but nonetheless it's a lush, gorgeous album that spans genres yet feels unified. There is so much to recommend, and with each listen, I find something new to gush over, but at the moment, I'll praise: "All the Children" as one of Barbra's most convincing attempts to sing rock or light rock; the way the arrangement of "Without Your Love" transitions from straightforward pop to a 1940s feel and then back, creating a aural flashback/fantasy sequence as Barbra recalls her relationship through a romantic filter before being drawn back to reality; the updating of '50s doo-wop on "Come Tomorrow"; the dreamy sensuality and yearning of "Hideaway". I'll echo Matt's suggestion to revisit GUILTY PLEASURES but elevate my urging to the level of Scott's championing of TILL I LOVED YOU. It's a terrific album and a neglected pop masterpiece.

[@davidj8607]

You’re straight Scott - you get a pass 😂😂😂

[@thebluerosemagazine3774]

Scott here, Thanks but I hate making mistakes about Barbra but we record several of these shows back to back and eventually my mind turns to mush.

[@davidj8607]

@@thebluerosemagazine3774 I love these videos ! ❤️❤️

[@SomeGuy-mg5jy]

When Scott first spoke of his wife in one of the earlier videos, I was like, "Scott can't be straight -- he is far too witty and funny!" But I love him, anyway! ❤

[@SonicDeeHedgehog]

Love Is The Answer is one of my least favorite Barbra albums. I just thought it was so boring. I've only listened to it a couple times. It's so hard for me to listen to.

[@daviddebaerdemaeker2034]

The funny girl ouverture !!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@daviddunny361]

Are you doing Timeless and Christmas Memories?

[@barbraarchives5604]

Yes! Those two are featured in episode 12 -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/gISUpI2nn9-Hf9E

[@daviddunny361]

Oh great. Thank you

[@TheJohnGent1]

The Movie Album of her weaker albums. Surprised you two even like it. She should have used the photo on the back for its cover.

[@barbraarchives5604]

It's one of my favorites!! Like I said, I think it's so elegant and lovely. But .... to each his own.

[@streisandstar]

♥️

[@daviddebaerdemaeker2034]

Nice anecdote with Julia Roberts!

[@billbill5326]

Scott I have to disagree. I love Guilty Pleasures. 😊

[@samph3315]

And no, there is no such thing as talking too long about Barbra!

[@tomg1776]

Sorry guys, but I consider The Movie Album one of Barbra's least successful albums. Maybe she just should have done an album of Beatles covers instead. Or better yet an album dedicated to Doris Day. For heaven's sake, even an album of overblown orchestration covers by Queen. I do agree, The Movie Album is brilliantly recorded with lush orchestrations. This is where her "team" let her down to the determent of the album. The album did sell close to 700K units in the USA. But there has to be some disappointment by Sony/Columbia and even Barbra knowing this album did not achieve the success it should have - and it was due to the material. Please review The Broadway Album, Guilty, TWWW, Back To Broadway, etc - when material is good, the people will buy it. (Matt, you're right, the cover is Photoshopped. Shot by Terry O'Neill - the original can be found via Google pic search)

[@greeklawyer2002]

Michael Bublé had won for Crazy Love...

[@JohnJones-fg1dd]

My favorite version of "Let's Hear It for Me" is by Marilyn Maye. Streisand's version is great though.

[@fkd1963]

The Bergmans tried hard to convince her not to do the “Guilty” sequel. Marilyn told someone “it’s not easy being her friend sometimes.” IMO, the only good track is “Letting Go” from the DVD where it’s her and piano. LITA and TMA are dull and proof she doesn’t know what is a good arrangement. Peter Matz, Don Costa, Michel LeGrand you are all missed!

[@thedirector2266]

I have one word to describe this post: ICk!

[@SonicDeeHedgehog]

I don't agree with anything you just said

[@SomeGuy-mg5jy]

Sequels are never a good idea-- in films or music.

[@Dianaemanuel]

Couldn't agree more about Guilty Pleasures. An awful album.

[@barbraarchives5604]

Some would disagree. LOL. But it's all good. We have different tastes.

[@VictorSantos-c1b]

Love is the answer is one of my least favorite Streisand recordings. She sounds like she’s singing in a tunnel and needs a shot of vitamin D.